It's the story of two couples that everything opposes.
Franck, a scrap dealer (Damien Bonnard) and his wife Meriem (Judith Chemla), sedentary gypsies, live in a caravan with their five children.
Julien (Benjamin Lavernhe, from the Comédie-Française), a lawyer from uptown, is married to Anna, also a lawyer.
Two characters with a bourgeois-bohemian tendency, who fail to become parents.
Implicated in a concealment case, Franck is defended by Julien.
While they are expecting a sixth child, Franck and Meriem, cornered, give up keeping him.
The father then offers his lawyer an illicit deal: entrust him with his unborn baby, for a fee.
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Adapted from
Alain Jaspard 's novel
Crying Rivers
, The Sixth Child
is the first film by Léopold Legrand, a director barely thirty years old whose story resonates in part with his, being himself adopted.
He signs an intimate drama, written without pathos, which refuses any moral judgment but explores with finesse a wide range of feelings.
And manages to generate empathy for these desperate characters whose irrepressible desire leads to bewilderment.
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Awarded four times at Angoulême (audience award, best screenplay, best music and double award for female interpretation for Sara Giraudeau and Judith Chemla), the film, and in particular the performance of its actresses, has been widely praised.
Theatrical release scheduled for Wednesday, September 28.
